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Main Forums => Technique & Playing => Topic started by: Will Fly on June 20, 2009, 12:50:32 PM

A lovely old tune from 1952 by George Shearing. I first heard this as a fingerstyle guitar piece when it was played by Al Stewart at the old Free Trades Hall in Manchester in (I think) 1967 or 1968. He was the opening support act for the Incredible String Band. I've been meaning to play it for over 40 years and only got round to it recently!

Thanks for that Will Fly -- great way to start my day! Keep the tunes coming, they're one of the best things about this forum. I no longer have any excuses not to learn new stuff (used to say I just couldn't afford lessons). Now I just hit youtube and videos like yours and I'm all set. Thanks again.

Excellent as usual! Do you have a trick for syncronizing the audio and video or did you do it some other way?

I feed the audio into "Audacity" on my Mac Book Pro, then create an mp3 audio file which I insert into one of the audio tracklines in iMovie software. I then dump the video from the DVD camcorder into the video trackline in the iMovie file. I can move the two tracks along so that, by playing the sound from each together at the same time, I can tell whether they're in synch. When they are in synch, I lop off extraneous tops and tails of audio and video, switch off the camcorder sound and - lo and behold - a polished product. I then add titling and fades from within iMovie.

Really good, Will. I laughed at the youtube poster who said, "I wish you were my dad."

Thanks for sharing your music.

Do you know, I really couldn't believe that post, and then I thought perhaps it have been from someone who'd always wanted to play the guitar but got no encouragement or help from their father, perhaps just discouragement - which was my position when I started playing, at the age of 20. And the poster's age, according to YouTube, is 25. So, in an odd way, I was a little moved by that, and it made me think of my own son (34 yesterday) who's coming over with his partner and my grandson for dinner today, and how I hope he's glad that I'm his father.